COMMUNITY HEALTH, EPIDEMIOLOGY, HUMAN BEHAVIOR Flashcards
Factors that affect Health of Community:
The physical environment in which the person live.
The social environment
Poverty
Behavior and Lifestyle
Family genetics and Individual Biology
Collecting information about the community.
Community Profiling
Data Considered in Community Profiling:
Work and levels of employment and unemployment.
Poverty and income
Environment
THREE BROAD FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE HEALTH OF COMMUNITY:
PHYSICAL FACTORS
SOCIAL & CULTURAL FACTORS
INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
the process of by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
Community Organizing
Types of Community Organization:
Local Development
Social planning
Social Action
process oriented, creating a consensus and sense of cooperation
Local Development
task oriented, emphasizing rational empirical problem solving
Social planning
both task and process oriented.
Social Action
the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries in human populations.
Epidemiology
Number of events in a given population over a specific period or at a given point in time.
Rates
average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 person in the population at the mid year
Birth rate
the number of new cases of a disease in a given time period
Incidence rate
the total number of case (old and new cases) of disease existing in a population.
Prevalence rate
the proportion of those who become ill after a specified exposure.
Attack Rate
